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Millais asked Elizabeth Siddal to pose for his painting 'Ophelia' (Tate Gallery, London) at the end of 1851, but she was unable to come to his studio until January 1852. There, to simulate the drowning heroine of 'Hamlet', she famously lay in a bath of water, warmed by lamps placed underneath.

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Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist John Everett Millais -

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
Works by Sir John Everett Millais,Bt, RA
- Grosvenor Gallery, London 1886 - 1886
 
Shakespeare in Pictures
30 Ulster Museum 1964-04-20 - 1964-05-18
 
Millais, PRB, PRA
272 Royal Academy of Arts, London 1967-01-14 - 1967-03-05
272 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 1967-03-15 - 1967-04-30
 
Pre-Raphaelite Women
14 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 1985-10-09 - 1986-01-02
14 Stoke on Trent Museum and Art Gallery 1986-09-13 - 1986-10-19
 
Three Centuries of British Drawings
115 - 1951 - 1951
 
Retrospective Exhibition of English Painting
114 Musée Moderne, Brussels 1929-10-12 - 1929-12-01
 
Exhibition of British Art c. 1000-1860
1263 Royal Academy, London 1934-01-06 - 1934-03-10
 
English Drawings and Engravings
218 Toma Stelian Museum, Bucharest 1935 - 1936
218 Vienna and Prague 1936 - 1936
 
Coronation Exhibition
- Royal Society of British Artists, London 1937-04-19 - 1937-06-05
 
Paintings and Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Followers
81 Russell-Coates Art Gallery, Bournemouth 1951-06-04 - 1951-08-07
 
Artists at Work from Sketch to Finish
5a Hampstead Artists Council 1953 - 1953
 
Some Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Drawings
43 National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 1955-07 - 1955-10
43 Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea - - -
 
Paintings & Drawings by British Artists from the City of Birmingham
52 National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 1956 - 1956
 
Primitives to Picasso: An Exhibition from Municipal and University Collections in Great Britain
401 Royal Academy of Arts, London 1962-01-06 - 1962-03-07
 
Death, Heaven and the Victorians
89 Brighton Museum and Art Gallery 1970-05-06 - 1970-08-03
 
Portretul Engles
- Romania and Hungary 1972-11 - 1973-01
 
English Portraits from Francis Bacon the philosopher to Francis Bacon, the Painter
146 National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo 1975-10-25 - 1975-12-14
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
- Portsmouth Art Gallery 1976-05-01 - 1976-05-29
 
Shakespeare in Western Art
67 Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo (and tour) 1992-10-29 - 1993-03-28
 
Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England
22. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington 1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07
22. Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio 1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16
22. Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington 1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15
22. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02
22. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia 1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10
22. Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery 1996-05-25 - 1996-09-29
 
The Pre-Raphaelites
40 London, Tate Gallery 1984-03-07 - 1984-05-28
 

Literature

Author(s) Date(s) Publisher Pages
The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais
John Guille Millais 1899 and 1900 Methuen, London, p. 490.
 
Twelve English Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
Wallace Whitworth 1925 Methuen, London pl. 11.
 
English Drawings
M .T. Ritchie 1935 Chatto & Windus, London no. 85.
 
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley 1939 Bemrose & Sons, Ltd, Derby p. 268.
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
1947 Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London p. 13
 
Pre-Raphaelite Portraits
Andrea Rose 1981 Oxford Illustrated Press, Yeovil p. 76.
 
Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England
Stephen Wildman 1995 Arts Services International, Alexandria, Virginia p. 118.
 
John Everett Millais: Illustrator and Narrator
Paul Goldman 2004 Lund Humphries, Aldershot B38

Provenance

Sir William Bowman, Bart, by 1886; Charles Fairfax Murray.

Associated people

Name Type
William Shakespeare Author
Elizabeth Siddal Artist's model

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